Steven P

and the more you click on a type of news story, the more of similar types of news stories gets delivered to you. So for example, click on a negative news story about an immigrant, there is a good chance that the next similar story will be shown to you also. And so it spirals into a pit of despair. It is easy to see how they get suckered into believing the world is a bad place.

The moon? Didn't you know there is a secret alien base there on the dark side, the communicate with the lizards on earth and whichever world order you think controls it. Be surprised if the landers lived very long... Weird to be talking of Musk and lizards on the same sentence? It would be quite good to do some more moon exploring, is there a plan in the near future to put a manned base there? The article said the rockets are good for 10 round trips so must be something planned?

Anyone notice in the last couple of hours this thread had turned on itself again. Wonder why? So what else is making the news apart from racism? Well, the miners are slowly being extracted, I think above comments, lots of 'meat' available but... there must also a way in to feed them that the authorities haven't mentioned Gaza ceasefire to start in 19th January - good news on here for a change, perhaps... and maybe hopeful they can make it stick for a while... wonder if the shake up in Syria encouraged this to speed along? TikTok is being banned in the US, so that's my second source of income knackered, dancing about the house to the sounds of a thousand Kylie classics. Perhaps this is a good thing also. Final interesting news, not really news more an interest piece, The Netherlands are offering a tax break, 27% of your salary is not taxed for immigrants to there, sorry, ex-pats, I think there is a difference. Anyway, back to the squabbling

Ahh, but this thread is the POTUS thread so Trump is fair game. As far as I can tell Starmer has never been found guilty of anything by a jury or court of law... again the defence of "Yeah but there are other bad guys so this ones crimes don't count any more". Trump is not a good guy no matter how many others you bring into the discussion. (You'll have to link to the website you are referring to by the way, it didn't pop up on Ask Jeves earlier)

It's probably being confused by the Bestie-Elect Musks wee baggies. (however as a defence that is a pretty shit one "So he is a Rapist but hey look - cocaine! That will absolve him") Edity.... Actually, Musk might be searching every couch and chair next week hoping for his next score - and what is better than it being free, paid for by 'the opposition'

Ooooh, cannot stand your poster by hero being made fun off can you without adding comment to defend him? Why is it that you find this white rapist so adorable?

I want this!!

I saw that on the news this week - crazy stuff what they are doing. 800 miners (not sure if that was government figures in which case probably more, if the figures from the miners possibly fewer) trapped.

But likewise, to ONLY bang on about Asian grooming gangs and brushing all other unders the carpet as it were, to ignore the majority of cases is blatant racism and making a political point at the expense of children being raped. Got to sit and work out where your priorities are.. is it racism or is it the protection of ALL children against ALL predators. I know and am comfortable where my priorities are. Are you?

Sorry Peds, a wee vanity project happening above (I" bet you think this song is about you...." thing) Hamas... Looks like they are about to agree a ceasefire - hostage swaps agreed which I think was the sticking point bfore. Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal 'right on the brink', says Blinken - live updates WWW.BBC.CO.UK A deal between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire in Gaza and release of hostages is "very close", mediator Qatar says,

As discussed above, 45% of the grooming gangs in the UK are white. The minority (14%) are Asians. To ONLY highlight (and repetitively only) the coloured gangs is a racist attack where you are trying to make a political point off the back of child rapes. End of.

As far as I read it, and I am not looking to put any building / containers on land, but the buildings had to be for managing the land it is on - so what you need to look after the woods. The was something about a fixed and a moveable structure - if you can move it then it is moveable (even if it is a 6" move) - foundations I think have to be like flag stones or similar. Dug foundations turns it into a permanent structure (not 100% on this one... the bloke who told me this has recently been evicted despite his moveable 'shed'). Container on flag stones OK, container on 2' deep concrete foundations not OK. But I think in essence I have to ask, what do you need 6 containers for to manage a 10 acre wood? Double stacked with an office on top isn't for managing a wood. I'll assume 40' and not 20' containers? 1 off as a tool store - small tractor, hand tools, PPE and so on, 1 as a workshop and parts store (fencing and so on), and you might get away with 1 for toilet and so on... but probably the view would be 80' of containers so far toilet and facilities can go in one of them. What are the plans for the other 3 or 4? Might be better looking at planning permission rather than skirting round the rules only to be told in a couple of years when you are set up that you've to clear the site and shut down whatever business you have going when the accommodation is removed.

Anyway... in case anyone missed this in between the same JohnsonD shit, different week: Also making the news are - Hamas are seriously considering the latest ceasefire negotiations (before Trump gets in power too, who knew that could happen?, sorry, couldn't help myself) - Nicola Sturgeon is getting divorced from her marriage of convenience (my thoughts that last bit)... as a convenient asset protection scheme in case her husband has to pay back proceeds of crimes (£600k?) (Important edity bit... that last part was also my thoughts too) - The LA Fires are still burning. Some very rich people poking their noses in are told to feck off again. - A white Grampion Prisons officer was jailed for rape of a child.. who knew a white man could do that, he is white and isn't even a Muslim either, might have only made the local news that one (whoops... off on one again sorry). - Comedian Tony Slattery died - For the dull old men amongst us, the Snookers masters happening, bed time viewing. - There have been no new European Lynx spotted (Farage is getting his way, Europeans coming here, stealing our wild cats jobs) Happy to talk about any of these instead.. and then to get distracted to a comedy thread as only Arbtalk can do so well. Not fish, we did fish puns recently.

When you say all races... some of his colleagues are Scousers if that counts as foreign?

I'm going to use this line!!

Don't suppose you noticed the multiple "distract the audience" posts when the posts were getting a bit close to Trumps inner circle? He cannot stand that his icon, Mr Trump, is a rapist, was besties with a child abuser and child trafficker (a white man who was well into grooming), has put forward a child rapist to be in the US government, has been accused many many times of sexual assaults, voyeurism in the miss world and junior miss world. About the only member on here who cannot see that Trump is not a good man (and I say man advisedly - man by birth and not actions). Mr Brand (also rapist) being entertained at Mar-A-Lago, republican convention "Grindr Fest", Roy Cohn a bit gay, misogynist rapist and child abuser, Tates 'Bro Party' in the same sentence as Trump... all getting a bit close to smearing Trump with the same apologist for (white) rapists.... so what to do... yup, fling in a racist post. Distraction. Popping up a racist post is the lesser of 2 evils - be seen as an apologist for The Rapist, or be accused of racism

I'd have thought you'd be fully aware of this.

You'll of course know that if the man is gay, the woman isn't always and the man isn't necessarily the biological father.... Where else is there to go after Miss World? Well Trump then went onto perving in the changing rooms of the Junior Miss world Contest if that is any precedent to set?

This has been a thing few times here in the last couple of years, stove in a new build or new extension sealed tight has problems, rarely get "My 100 year old house fire doesn't draw very well". Insulated flu... mine is a single skin liner and the chimney brickwork retains a lot of heat - great for upstairs bedroom after a couple of days fires - wonder if an insulated liner retains as much heat?

I'm not a chimney expert but making the chimney smaller and expecting it to expel more gasses seams counter intuitive (I assume smaller baffle = smaller diameter hole in it?). Might be put a small fire in - a few sheets of paper while you go out to get the firewood and kindling in - to pre-warm a cold chimney as it were - before making the main fire helps? Or a add taller chimney.

I'd need to check but might be that with 1 fan the peltier isn't working flat out as it were, 2 fans and it will still work OK (you get different qualities and efficiencies - different power out, plus 2 fans might mean the cold side is cooler (more air), bigger temperature difference, more power out, too much for a simple internet search to tell me)

The link has gone now, but I saw a brilliant one at the end of the news pages yesterday, a bit of lighter relief... Apparently 'ladies toys' can be operated remotely by internet, wifies and bluetooth... but have no internet security and virus checkers (you make your own jokes there). Hackers can take control of them if they wanted to... so be warned... It amused me anyway.

But back to the lynx, I haven't followed up on this story yet, what's the updates?

This is true, the laws need to be up to the standards we demand, must be suitable and applied properly and fairly to all. If they are found to be lacking then amend them or make new laws. I think Labour picking up recommendations of an enquiry (commissioned and then ignored by the Tory party) is a good first step to updating them. Noting that the 'proxy' leader in his time at the CPS implemented procedural changes and so on which saw a stepped increase in prosecutions of grooming gangs and child sex exploitation. Jess Philips has always campaigned on the same issues (as well as other abuses towards girls and women). I think we'll see a slow and steady increase and tightening of legislation along these lines over the next 4 years (and in my view surpassing the Tory parties legislation for all the time they were in office). This is a good thing. (You'll maybe disagree here, but copy and pasting links from any papers, Linkedin, Facebook, Bebo or where ever, bypassing the brains thinking "Is this the full story, is there a hidden agenda" just reinforces the racist stereotypes and agenda of the sources, adds to the perception that the crimes are only carried out by foreigners... because it furthers an agenda... and that sells more papers... profiting politically from anothers suffering is never a good thing... )

Yes, I usually have a reliable resource. Think it was this article I was reading: Grooming gangs and ethnicity: What does the evidence say? WWW.BBC.CO.UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman made several comments about the ethnicity of some high-profile gangs.